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• A pre-defined project on information integrity focused on Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) shall be explored when developing the Concept Note.
• A pre-defined project with the Norwegian Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority as donor project partner shall be explored when developing the Concept Note.
• Cooperation with civil society organisations through one or more calls for proposals shall be explored when developing the Concept Note.
• Indicative allocation to programme areas is in line with the following guiding principles: approximately 40% to the programme area “Serious and Organised Crime”; approximately 40% to "Disaster prevention and preparedness"; approximately 20% to the programme area “Asylum, Migration and Integration”. The final allocations shall be agreed and set in the Programme Agreement.
• The maximum level of funding for investment in infrastructure and equipment (hard measures) shall be 60% of the total eligible expenditure of the programme.
• The programme area “Serious and Organised Crime” shall include support to operational cooperation between the Norwegian and Romanian police in the field of organised crime. Areas such as trafficking in human beings, drug-related crime, as well as cybercrime should be explored.
• The programme shall contribute to the inclusion and empowerment of Roma and shall meet the target set in section 3 ''Specific concerns'' of this Annex, building on successful projects from the Financial Mechanism 2014-2021.
• Within the programme area “Asylum, Migration and Integration”, support shall, inter alia, be provided to capacity building of the relevant national authorities, with special emphasis on increasing the child- and gender-sensitivity of national systems for asylum, migration and integration. Support to facilitating the return of people with rejected asylum claims shall be explored in complementarity with activities funded by the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF). Increased coordination between national institutions and civil society shall be promoted.
• Within the programme area “Disaster prevention and preparedness”, the programme shall, inter alia, support capacity building measures with regards to identifying and preventing risks and vulnerabilities and enhance disaster resilience. Gender- and youth-sensitive disaster risk management shall be supported. Measures to increase safety, security, and civil protection in the Black Sea region, including the institutional and operational capacity of the relevant national authorities, shall be further explored when developing the Concept Note. Partnerships with the Norwegian Directorate for Civil Protection and/or other Norwegian authorities and entities at project level shall be explored.

No projects have been signed under this programme. That is a real state rather than a gap in the data: bilateral funds and newly agreed programmes both sit here.